A Pair of North Italian Neoclassical Cream Painted and Silvered Side Chairs Late 18th Century, Piedmont

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Description

height 37 in.; width 19 1/4 in.
(94 cm; 48.9 cm)

each oval padded backrest carved with foliate trails above a horseshoe-shaped seat carved with bell flowers, on round tapered, leaf-carved fluted legs.

Catalogue Note

A comparable chair from a suite of seat furniture supplied to the court of Vittorio Amedeo III of Sardinia (1726-1796), for the Palazzo Quirinale, Rome is illustrated G. Morazzoni, Il Mobile Neoclassico Italiano, Milan, 1955, Tav. XXX.